Senna - Cassia Angustifolia Leaves, Pods & Stems | Natural Laxative, Herbal Remedy For Digestive Health

Senna

Indo Exports offer Senna (Cassia Angustifolia)

Botanical Name : Cassia Angustifolia

Family Name : Caesalpinaceae

Common Name : Senna, Indian Senna, Tinnervelly Senna, Cassia Senna.

Part Used : Pods, Stems And Leaves.

Habitat : Cultivated in dry lands of southern & western india, and indegenous to arabia.

Product offered : Leaves, Fruit, Pod

Senna is most commonly used as a laxative.

Senna leaves or pods have been used as a cathartic laxative at doses
of 0.6 to 2 g/day, with a daily dose of sennoside B from 20 to 30 mg.
Senna should not be used at higher doses or for extended periods of
time.

enna contains anthraquinones including dianthrone glycosides (1.5%
to 3%), sennosides A and B (rhein dianthrones), sennosides C and D
(rhein aloe-emodin heterodianthrones). Numerous minor sennosides have
been identified, and all appear to contribute to the laxative effect.
The plant also contains free anthroquinones in small amounts including
rhein, aloe-emodin, chrysophanol and their glycosides.

Senna pods also contain the same rhein dianthrone glycosides as the leaves.

Carbohydrates in the plant include 2% polysaccharides, and
approximately 10% mucilage consisting of galactose, arabinose, rhamnose
and galacturonic acid. Other carbohydrates include mannose, fructose, glucose, pinitol and sucrose.

Flavonols present include isorhamnetin and kaempferol. Glycosides 6-hydroxymusizin and tinnevellin are also found.

Other constituents in senna include chrysophanic acid, salicylic
acid, saponin, resin, mannitol, sodium potassium tartrate and trace
amounts of volatile oil.

It is recognised by British and US pharmacopoeias. It is useful in
habitual costiveness. It lowers bowels, increases peristaltic movements
of the colon by its local action upon the intestinal wall. It is used
as expectorant, wound dresser, antidysentric, carminative and laxative.

Useful in loss of appetite, hepatomegaly, spleenomegaly, indigestion,
malaria, skin diseases, jaundice and anaemia. Leaves are made into a
paste, and applied to various skin diseases